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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
Yoshiaki Oka, Ichiroh Yanagisawa, Shigehiro An, Shun-ichi Miyasaka, Tomonori Hyodo
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 76 | Number 2 | November 1980 | Pages 119-136
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE80-A19445
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Reaction rate and dose rate distributions due to streaming o f neutrons and gamma rays were measured in the nearly cubical cavity and in the ducts leading to the cavity at the fast reactor YAYOI. The experimental configuration was arranged in a way that streaming through the ducts occurred only after scattering in the cavity. This was done by making the duct axes perpendicular to the source radiation from the reactor core. The spectrum of the source was modified from fast to thermal by putting moderators in the beam hole of the core assembly. The spatial distribution of the neutron reaction rates and gamma-ray dose rates in the cavity is almost flat except for a small decrease at the wall. The cadmium ratios at the duct inlets and the attenuation profiles in the ducts are almost identical irrespective of the spectrum of neutrons entering the cavity. The two-dimensional discrete ordinates transport calculation by TWOTRAN-II has shown that although the ray effect is observed in the fast neutron flux distribution in the cavity, the calculated results agree rather well with the experimental distributions in the cavity and with the streaming in the ducts with regard to the results measured with the l/v type neutron detectors. Also, for the gamma rays the agreement is rather good between the calculation and the experiment.